Bob Price wrote: >In the early eighties I though some gas companies were selling gas >in liters for awhile. Unfortunately, the effort failed.
It wasn't a genuine effort. At the time, many gas pumps were designed for a maximum unit price of $9.999. When gas went over $1 per gallon, they had to adjust the size of the unit, so they chose liter, rather than, for example 0.5 gallon. That was a good thing. (I think it was Shell that chose liters. Some oil companies may have used half gallons. Can anyone remember?) The bad thing was that, as part of the normal pump replacement cycle, with the capability of higher unit prices (i.e., an additional digit), they simply reverted to gallons. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
